On 23/01/2008, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It is an irrelevant question. Research has shown that
kids that learn to
write in their mother tongue first will do better academically.
The question was "Note that I'm asking 'effectively communicate'" -
effectively, not requiring the communication to be ideal. (e.g. en:wp
is effective as an encyclopedia for quite a large international
readership who don't have English as a first language, as is seen by
the large amount of editing from such countries and people.) You
appear to be answering the question as if it said "ideally".
- d.